Digital Rare Book:
The Oriental Annual, or, Scenes in India - Volume 1
By William Daniell (1769-1837), Hobart Caunter (1794-1851) etc
Comprising Twenty-five engravings
Published by Edward Bull, London -1834

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The Oriental Annual in seven volumes (1834-1840) is one of the examples of the subgenre of travel annuals. As tourism boomed throughout the early nineteenth century, so too did books marketed to those who may not have the wherewithal (or courage) to travel to distant, dangerous lands. The engraving "Boa Constrictor Seizing a Government Messenger," for example, illustrates the horrific tale of a notorious, man-eating serpent on the island of Java. As the title page engraving of "Brahminnee Girls at Ghaut" from the 1839 Oriental Annual shows, travel annuals were often testaments of the imperialist ideology of the period, pairing detailed engravings of exotic people and places with vivid prose descriptions.

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